Chapter 42: Provocation
After a while, the surroundings suddenly quieted down, and she was still wondering when she was grabbed and dragged up by Huan Xiang, and at the same time heard a shrill voice shouting: "The emperor, the queen mother, the queen mother is ......."
Subconsciously raised her eyes and saw the emperor, the queen mother and the queen on the high platform in front of her looking down with a smile, and she realized that it was these nobles who had finally arrived, so she knelt down with the people in the hall and said respectfully but casually: "Long live the emperor, long live long live, long live the queen mother, the queen mother, the queen In fact, she felt funny in her heart, knowing that it was all hypocrisy but still pretending to be sincere, she blushed for these people, and those people in the royal family really didn't know what to say.
"Excuse me! Today is a palace banquet, but it is also considered a family banquet, so there is no need to be formal! "The emperor has not seen him for a few years, but he has calmed down, and now after all, he is also in his forties, and after more than ten years on the throne, he is naturally no longer the young emperor who was a little immature when he first ascended the throne.
When everyone sat down, there was a sudden silence, and they said that they were not restrained, but how many people could really be unrestrained? The emperor glanced around a few times, and saw Huan Jiuyao look at the column opposite Huan Xiang and they suddenly smiled: "Heh, it seems that today is really a good day, my imperial niece is back, and even Wen Ruo, who has never shown his face, is here!" Great, good! β
"Your Majesty, the little girl just returned to Beijing half a month ago, and today the minister took her into the palace to ask the Queen Mother for peace, and brought the dog over to the Queen Mother by the way." Huan Xiang got up and arched his hand.
"Oh? Even my imperial nephew brought it? Where? Let me see! The emperor glanced at Huan Xiang and asked with a look of great joy.
"Emperor, this child is here in mourning! The child from Jing'er came to see me, and I saw that Wei'er looked so likable and asked her to leave the child with me, and she was still not at ease! The Queen Mother glanced at Huan Jiuyao and joked with the emperor. After speaking, she took Wei'er from the hands of her aunt beside her and held her in her arms to show the emperor.
When the emperor heard this, he hurriedly leaned over and looked carefully at the little guy carved in the queen mother's arms, his face was full of joy, but Huan Xiang stood at the bottom of the stairs with a respectful expression, but a look of unknown meaning flashed in his eyes.
After looking at the emperor and looking away, he looked at the Queen Mother and arched his hand, but his expression was still faint, and he couldn't see half of the nervousness and blame: "The Queen Mother forgives me, this child is a little rude by me, and if there is disrespect, please don't blame the Queen Mother." β
The Queen Mother waved her hand indifferently: "What did the prime minister say, Jing'er, this child is the granddaughter of the mourning family, and it is too late for the mourning family to love her, so how can you blame it?" After speaking, he looked at Huan Jiuyao, who was sitting at the bottom and winked at her slyly when he heard this, and suddenly felt even more happy.
"That's it, Daddy, the imperial grandmother loves me so much, and I'm so cute, how can she be willing to blame me, and only you talk about me all day long, hum!" Huan Jiuyao looked at the Queen Mother with a smile and looked at her doting eyes, and suddenly stood up with an arrogant face and replied unconvinced, looking really a naΓ―ve eldest lady who was always pampered and raised by her family.
"Oh, you kid, it's really ......" The Queen Mother looked at her unforgiving appearance as she climbed up the pole, and suddenly cried and laughed, "Quick, you come up and sit next to the emperor's grandmother, I see that you can't be honest there, just come over and I'll look at you!" As she spoke, she waved to Huan Jiuyao, and suddenly a palace maid added a soft stool beside the Queen Mother.
Huan Jiuyao heard that she still looked reluctant, and quietly pursed her lips, but most people were in full view, and suddenly some people secretly ridiculed her in their hearts that she didn't know what to do, and some people secretly worried that she was blamed by the Queen Mother, and for a while, everyone's faces had different looks.
It's just that some people didn't have time to be proud in their hearts when they heard the Queen Mother say helplessly: "You stinky girl, do you even dare to dislike the imperial grandmother?" Don't come up yet! "As long as a person with a brain can understand it, the Queen Mother's words are obviously orders and threats, but in fact, there is no sense of anger. In an instant, some people's faces changed, and they re-evaluated Huan Jiuyao's status in their hearts, while some people were about to bite the root of their teeth, and a pair of plain hands pinched the handkerchief in their hands out of shape, just like Qi Yanyun sitting next to Concubine Shu and Su Wanyu sitting on the right table opposite Huan......
After Huan Jiuyao sat down next to the Queen Mother, he quietly looked at Huan Xiang, and the two exchanged a few glances in private, thinking that no one would notice each other's hearts, but they didn't want this little secret action to be perceived by someone one by one.
She teased the Queen Mother a few times, and after smiling at what her old man said, she took advantage of the Queen Mother to look at the group of slender musicians below with a serious face, dancing with some pure hearts, no interest, and can only be described as beautiful.
Her luck today is not very good, and her careful wish of "stealing half a day of leisure" cannot be well realized, and she feels very aggrieved when she thinks about it.
After seeing that after the dancers of the music workshop, Su Wanyu stood up gracefully, looked very embarrassed, and asked softly: "Your Majesty, the courtiers dare to use today to offer their ugliness, I don't know if the emperor can allow it?" β
"Oh? Are you prepared? When the emperor heard this, he asked with a smile, and when he saw Su Wanyu nodding with a smile on his face: "In this case, then let's go." β
"Yes, Emperor Xie, please also ask the courtiers to go down and prepare." After speaking, when the emperor agreed, she walked outside the hall with a smile on her face, and when she turned around, she didn't forget to glance at the direction where Huan Jiuyao was, and the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, and her eyes were full of pride.
But it made Huan Jiuyao look inexplicable, and she didn't understand what she was proud of about performing a show.
After a while, she changed into a lotus root powder folded yarn Ruan Yanluo skirt, the skirt was fluttering, her posture was slender and light, it was very eye-catching, even the princes mostly looked at her intently, Su Wanyu smiled more gently and movingly when she saw this, but her eyes were full of pride.
However, it is not unreasonable for her to be so confident, even Huan Jiuyao has to admit that her dance is indeed attractive, and she actually crossed the dancers in the palace.
The musician played the piano from the beginning of the square to see her slender waist gently turned, the light yarn in her hand was raised, the clothes fluttered sometimes covered her face and smiled and sometimes looked up to self-pity, the dance steps seemed to have a sense of "as if the light clouds covered the moon, fluttering like the snow of the flowing wind", and finally with the fall of the last note, Su Wanyu jumped in the air, the tulle in her hand swirled and entangled, as if the heavens descended, Huan Jiuyao vaguely found the charm of the flying goddess in the Dunhuang murals, not to mention those ancients who had never seen the grandeur of Dunhuang, Suddenly, one by one was like a dream, and I couldn't wake up for a long time.
Huan Jiuyao was only amazed for a moment, and his expression returned to that indifferent appearance, just glanced at everyone for a week, thinking that except for Huan Xiang, the rest of the people should be the same infatuated appearance, but he didn't want to blink an eye but saw the prince playing with the cup in his hand with a faint smile and the fourth prince Su Wang who turned the jade wrench in his hand with his eyelids lowered and didn't know what to ponder. She was just stunned for a moment and then instantly figured it out, these two are naturally difficult characters, needless to say, they have this mentality.
So I thought about it and wanted to look away, but I suddenly bumped into a pair of eyes halfway, what kind of eyes are these, and it made her a little distracted in a trance. She only felt as if she was standing at the edge of a deep and clear pool, the surface of the pool was shining with waves, but Tan Zhong was bottomless, but it was the dim and hazy light that made people feel very mysterious and wanted to find out. She flickered her nerves, and when she looked again, her deep, dark eyes no longer looked at her, and she could only see the back of a black-haired white-clothed young man leaning lazily on the back of a chair from a distance.